Word: realist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Germans Bearing Arms. The fact is that the position taken by Realist Lord Salisbury was the one least in favor of an early meeting with the Russians. He insisted that any move toward such a meeting be postponed until after the German elections and after the ratification of EDC. Those two steps, he argued, would put the Western powers in a stronger bargaining position against the Kremlin...
...either shuffle geometrical figures or splash about hoping for happy accidents. Matta does neither. In a sense he is enlarging the bounds of abstract art by painting representationally. He pays as much attention to the representation of space and atmosphere, of light, shadow and shape, as the most uncompromising realist. So that while his pictures suggest no familiar, recognizable forms, they do produce a strange illusion of reality...
...with anybody," and adds: "There are only two ways to get ahead in Hollywood. You either have to get one great picture a year-these propel you forward-or your impact has to be made with a lot of pictures." Ros, of necessity, chose the second way, and was realist enough to know that not all the pictures would be good...
...bare 33 drawings have come to light in four centuries, but these are enough to make his fame. His greatest work, a tremendous altarpiece of nine paintings which now stands in the museum at Colmar, Alsace, contains a magnificent painting of the Crucifixion. A mystic with a realist's sense of physical suffering, Griinewald made the Crucifixion an epic of wounds and pain seldom, if ever, matched on canvas...
John Piper is now probably Britain's leading romantic realist, but he has come to this eminence the long way round. Growing up in London and at Epsom College, he dabbled in archaeology, played the piano in an amateur dance band, wrote poetry and took art courses. He was 25 before he considered art something more than just one pleasing hobby among many...